Harriet Clark
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460 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
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She organized a huge amount in terms of the college program and parenting programs and an AIDS counseling program.
And so in that sense, she was a revolutionary in the prison, too.
You know, she's always thinking about how we can create better conditions for people's lives.
And the prison really demanded that.
And it's the work she does out of prison.
So, yes, you know, I don't consider any member of my family an ideologue anymore.
But I do consider them profoundly committed people.
When my grandmother died, I went back to live with two of the women from the collective.
And they've always been my family.
They're my primary family now because I don't have my grandparents in that particular family.
part of my family from my youth.
So yes, I very much consider my extended family my family.
I feel very lucky.
Susanna's life is quite narrow in the book, but I was very lucky.
And when I fell out of conventional nuclear care structures, I really did fall into a vast network of care.
It's the two truths of my life that something in me
has been and felt somewhat orphaned and something in me has been incredibly well cared for by a very large number of people.
Yes, that also was one of the great blessings of my life, was to be raised with Sister Elaine, which thousands of children whose mothers were in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, this was one of the blessings in their life as well.
For many reasons, both because structurally she created the Children's Center and the nursery and the programs that
made us be able to have, you know, the good times we could have with our mothers.
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